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UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCEQ JOHN GREEN, OF LOWELL, MASSAOHUSE'ITS.

MACHINE FORFPRINTING TEXTILE FABRICS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,208, dated July 10, 1866.

: sachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementl in the Machines which are Used for Printing Textile or other Fabrics, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact del scription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specication, in which Figure l is a vertical section, Fig. 2 a front elevation, and Fig. 3 a plan or top view, of my improvement as applied to a calico-printing Fig. 4 is an end View of a furnishing-cam having two furnishing-surfaces v '11.

In the drawings, A is a large cylinder, called the bow1, around the under side of which and around a series of smaller cylinders or rolls an endless apron or blanket, B, is carried, as usual.

A printing-cylinder, O, rotates in suitable bearings in front of and nearly in contact with the lower side of the bowl A, the workingsurface of the printing-cylinder or the gures f cut thereon coming in contact with the blanket B at a, on the surface of the bowl A, as in the ordinary calico-printin g machine.

In the ordinary mode of printing lateral or transverse stripes or figures on textile or other fabrics by machinery the printing-cylinders are each provided with one furnishing-roll, which revolves in a color-box containing ink or coloring-matter, and when more than one color is printed on the same piece of cloth or other material a separate printing-cylinder, furnishing-roll, and color-box are required for each color.

In carrying out my improvement I provide one, two, or more furnishing-cams, D and E, or their equivalent, which revolve in colorboxes F and G, each box being supplied with a different color, and all arranged so as to deposit color upon any portion of the printingsurface of the cylinder O.

The furnishing-cams D and E may have two or more furnishing-surfaces, o, as shown in Fig. 4, in which case the printing-cylinder C will have stripes or figures to correspond with the increased number of furnishing-surfaces on said cams.

The furnishing-surfaces e on the cams D and E may be sufficiently wide to cover more than one stripe or figure on the cylinder O, so that each furnishing-surface o on said cams may furnish the same color for more than one stripe or figure on the cylinder O.

One of the furnishing-cams D or E may be worked alone with the cylinder C, and thereby print one or two or more narrow stripes in one color, and one, two, or more of the said furnishing-cams, with a cylinder, O, maybe used alone or in eonj unction with the common printing-rolls l() ll 12, which are shown in Fig. l.

Two or more of the printing-cylinders O, with cams D and E and color-boxes F and G, may be applied to the bowl A in contact with the blanket B, in like manner as that represented in Fig. l.

That portionl ofthe cylinder O on which the ligures f are cut I generally make-in movable or detachable sections, so that when it is desired to print one or more stripes or figures, and then leave a blank of from one-half of a yard to one and one-half yard, as in ladies7 dress and skirt patterns, all the sections of figures may be removed, except those required for printing'said stripes or figures.

The size of the cams D and E and the speed of the same must be in proportion to the size and speed of the printing-cylinder O, so that each of the cams shall revolve in time to deposit its color upon the proper stripe or figure on the printing-cylinder C, as in the present instance. The printing-cylinder O has six stripes or figures j', and is so geared that one revolution of the printing-cylinder causes each of the furnishing-cams to perform three revolutions, the gear H on the printing-cylinder G having thirty-six teeth, and the gears J on each of the furnishing-cams having twelve teeth. The furnishing-cams being thus driven bythe printing-cylinder causes the cams to deposit on the figures f of the cylinder every other figure a black and'every other iigure a red color, each black figure on the cylinder missing the red cam, and each red figure on the cylinder missing the black cani as they revolve.

The cylinder O may be driven by gears or by a belt, O, running from pulley I? on the end ofthe roll R onto pulley S on the shaft of the printing-cylinder O, or by any other method that will cause the working or printing surface of the cylinder C to travel at the same speed of the surface of the blanket B.

The cloth or other material printed passes between the printing cylinder C and the blanket B, which is carried around the bowl A, and the gure is printed on the said material between the cylinder C and the blanket B against the surface of the bowl A.

My improvement may be used for printing yarns for knit or woven fabrics where thcyarns are printed before being knit or woven, as in neckcomforters, ladies7 ho0ds, shawls, and other similar articles. Said yarns or other maferial may be printed Without the aid of the ordinary printing-machine, or bein g connected therewith by passing said yarn between the cylinder C and the cams D and E.

I-am aware that longitudinal stripes have been printed in different colors on textile and other fabrics by furnishing color to the printing-cylinder with sectional rolls, like-several Vpulleys on a shaft, each section furnishing a different color from different compartments,

f into which the color-box is divided by partitions across said box. I therefore disclaim having invented the above-described method of printing in two or more colors; but

What I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The use and application of two or more furnishing-cams, D and E, or their equivalent, to the workin g or printing surface of a printing-cylinder, said cams being constructed with one, two, or more furnishing-surfaces n, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. Printing .two or more colors with one cylinder, each color being deposited upon the printing-surface of the cylinder by a separate furnishing-cam o'r its equivalent, substantially in the manner set forth.

3. The arrangement of the cams D and E and cylinder (l, whereby two or more colors may be printed on the same piece of cloth or other material, substantially as herein set forth.

4. The arrangement of the cams D and E and the cylinder C, when used separately or in 

